How to Backup and Restore WordPress Database Manually

By techgist, October 15th, 2009 in How-To, Wordpress  |  1 Comments

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A successful blogger always cares about his database because it means great time to him. It is the most essential part of a blogger to run a periodical backup of the database. If you have not yet installed and activated the WordPress Database Backup Plug-in, we request you to read our other article Important things you must do after WordPress installation and install the back up plug-in. Even though the database backup plug-in is available it is always better to know how to manually backup and restore WordPress Database.

We provide here a quick guide to Backup and restore WordPress Database manually using phpMyAdmin.

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How to Change WordPress Admin Username

By techgist, October 15th, 2009 in How-To, Wordpress  |  0 Comments

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After the successful installation of WordPress, the most important thing you have to do is changing the temporary password created by WordPress but unfortunately you can not change the username. Hence, it is possible for a hacker who can easily use a brute force attack on the admin account and take control of your WordPress Admin Panel. So, we advice you to change the WordPress admin user name at the earliest in order to increase security.

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Installing WordPress on your website

By techgist, September 20th, 2009 in How-To, Wordpress  |  0 Comments

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WordPress is the best blog publishing application and content management system. Further, WordPress is one of the trustworthy open source blog scripts freely available at present. Nowadays, most of the web hosts provide a one click installation of WordPress installation through Fantastico script. If the above feature is not available with your web host or if you wish to take more advantage of WordPress; install WordPress by yourself.

WordPress installation is easy and it will take less than 5 minutes time to install. Below is the step by step installation guide of WordPress.

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How to remove “This site may harm your computer” label in Google Search results.

By techgist, September 5th, 2009 in How-To  |  0 Comments

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If you see a warning message “This site may harm your computer” in Google search results under your web site, the situation is really bad. You need to react immediately to remove the label from Google or else within few days your business will get affected badly without any traffic to your web site.

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How to backup and restore Skype chat history

By techgist, August 25th, 2009 in How-To  |  3 Comments

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Skype IM is widely used by the business community, vital information are shared through Skype. There are chances that you may need to re-install Skype.  So it is always better to have a backup of the Skype chat history to avoid loss of important data.

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How to backup and restore Firefox bookmarks

By techgist, August 25th, 2009 in How-To  |  0 Comments

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Bookmarks help to remember and store the websites we visit often. It is quite obvious that Firefox may crash when we do regular software updates or when we install a new add-on or at the time of regular maintenance activities. It is always advisable to have a backup of Firefox bookmarks. Creating a backup of bookmarks is very simple. Just follow the below steps to backup and restore Firefox bookmarks.

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